A council leader whose membership of Reform UK was revoked after an investigation into his social media use has resigned.
Ian Cooper took charge of Staffordshire County Council after May’s local elections, when his party won control from the Conservatives.
Although he has quit as leader, Cooper will remain an independent councillor in Tamworth.
Posts at the centre of complaints about him included one making reference to then foreign secretary David Lammy, which stated “no foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in Parliament”.